Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History, (Paperback)

from seasonsoflove

I received an ARC of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This did not affect my opinion of the book or my review itself. In Lady Killers, Telfer tells the true stories of fourteen female serial killers from history, ranging from groups of women who banded together to po...

from Calavari

What a delightfully creepy book. I'm not really a true crime fan because it makes me even more paranoid than I already tend to be, but I had to find one for Read Harder this year. I still couldn't listen to it right before bed but it was fascinating. Telfer brings together a set of women from our...

from Maydacat

The subject of female serial killers is not one that comes up often in literature, but this book handled the subject well and is aptly named. Many of these killers were ladies in the strictest sense. Some came from well-to-do families. They looked liked society people, or like hard-working innkee...

from starbox

This is a light read, but not a trashy one. I'd heard of a couple of the female serial killers (Elizabeth Bathory and Mary Anne Cotton) but the rest wre all new and - generally- quite an interesting lot. The "Angel Makers of Nagyrev" - a sisterhood of old Hungarian villagerswho operated almost li...

from amcheri

Interesting cases but I wasn't in the right frame of mind for it.